What's really curious, we just came through an election.

I don't know if you guys knew that.

We had an election recently and one of the voters' issues that was prevalent among younger

people was the environment or climate change or environmental activism and they have a lot

of concerns and worries and questions about the world in which we live.

The good news is the Bible actually tells us where the world came from.

The Bible tells us who rules over the world.

The world, we are told, is broken and flawed because of sin,

and it tells us that Jesus Christ is coming again to lift the curse and to heal creation.

So for those of us who know the Bible and we know

God's story, we know how to understand and interpret the data that's going on in our world.

And it's a great gift to us. So the storyline of the Bible is this, that God made the heavens

and the earth, he made all of creation, he made the world as we know it, and then he created

our first parents, Adam and Eve,

and he gave them something called dominion.

This is authority to rule and reign.

Once Adam and Eve sinned against God,

everything that was under their dominion

was affected by their sinful decision.

So when they sin against God,

and not only broke their relationship with God, it also broke their relationship with creation, and it broke creation.

The result is the world that we live in now, as magnificent as it is,

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